http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/ Engadget Comments for Libya's education ministry purchases 150,000 Classmate PCs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Nov 1st 2007 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/To any of the asshats that didn't get the memo. The comments about these being spam/porn tools are not any of the following:
-Funny
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-Insightful
-Meaningful
-Worthy of the bandwidth you take for granted]]>Nov 2nd 2007 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/
It really is too bad that these two/three companies cannot get together and actually do what was originally planned; provide the developing world with a laptop at the lowest cost with innovative design.

(and I'm talking hardware design here, that green-eared case is FUG!!) ]]>Oct 31st 2007 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

I AM MARIAM ABACHA, WIDOW OF THE LATE NIGERIAN HEAD OF STATE, GEN. SANI ABACHA. AFTER HE DEATH OF MY HUSBAND WHO DIED MYSTERIOUSLY AS A RESULT OF SEEING THE OPERATING SYSTEM ON OLPC, I WAS INFORMED BY OUR LAWYER, BELLO GAMBARI THAT, MY HUSBAND WHO AT THAT TIME WAS THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA, CALLED HIM AND CONDUCTED HIM ROUND HIS APARTMENT AND SHOWED HIM FOUR METAL BOXES CONTAINING MONEY ALL IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE AND HE EQUALLY MADE HIM BELIEVE THAT THOSE BOXES ARE FOR ONWARD TRANSFER TO HIS OVERSEAS COUNTERPART FOR PURCHASING OLPC LAPTOP COMPUTERS FROM ONE MR. NEGROPONTE.

DUE TO HIS UNTIMELY DEMISE, I HUMBLY REQUEST YOUR HELP SECURING THESE FUNDS FOR PURCHASING CLASSMATE LAPTOP COMPUTERS.]]>Oct 31st 2007 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Wikipedia has informed me of your ways. We shall keep our crapputers and reject any orders from youz.

Please be wells.

Simon Selleron
Wintel Crapputer Corporation, Education Division

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud]]>Oct 31st 2007 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/ the trackpad should be rectangular too. Why must they torture poor Third World Children with round trackpads? ]]>Oct 31st 2007 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/
Couple that with a patent Apple owns on "A rectangular touch sensitive surface centered on a laptop" and you see why by being round it's allowed to be centered, rather than offset.]]>Oct 31st 2007 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/libyas-education-ministry-purchases-150000-classmate-pcs/Oct 31st 2007 1:41PM